72 comments

• Viv commented  ·  January 29, 2013 6:44 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I need to sync my pdf library across multiple machines, and it's really, really annoying that doing so basically ruins what makes mendeley useful. I agree, metadata needs to be something written into the pdf file itself. I have edited my library around three times over now, and it's getting annoying.

• Ber commented  ·  January 28, 2013 8:40 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  XMP WOULD BE GREAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• Ber commented  ·  January 28, 2013 8:31 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Adimin !! Not create a Backup of the library, but save the metadata inside the file, inside the PDF, like in mp3 or jpeg !!

  So when you send a pdf to many people, these guy only have to drag and drop the PDF on Mendeley desktop, and the metadata will be read by the Mendeley.

  Mendeley team, look at our despair. This feature is very very important !!!!!

  I will be great when you are migrating to other computer or other OS.

• mls commented  ·  November 23, 2012 11:33 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Doing it manually is not a realistic option. I have 1500 references, just like anyone else who uses the paid version.

• Joshua Toney commented  ·  October 31, 2012 1:21 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Just waiting for this feature to put it all in Mendeley...I'll keep checking back.

• Ziyad Saeed commented  ·  October 26, 2012 7:04 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I exported the Mendeley database to bibtex and opened it in Jabref A quick correction of the paths and used Jabref's build in feature to add metadata as XMP to the pdf files itself. BUt I don't think Mendeley even reads the xmp metadata from the pdf's.

• Patrick commented  ·  September 25, 2012 1:33 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  This, definitely this. There's no reason I should have to edit the reference file more than once.

• Anonymous commented  ·  August 15, 2012 7:39 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  would be great... also as a step towards better integration of reference managing with e-reader managing... for my e-reader to display the correct author and title (the minimum i'd need for browsing pdf's on my e-reader) i now have to edit the metadata with other software, apart from what i do in mendeley. it would be nice not to have to do this double work...

• zodium commented  ·  July 26, 2012 9:35 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Can we get an update on this? It's been under review for over a year.

• k commented  ·  May 24, 2012 7:56 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  This the most important feature I need.Please make it possible before my Windows breaks down again.

• zodium commented  ·  April 23, 2012 9:04 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  This is huge. I like using Mendeley and will probably get a paid account, but I am very uncomfortable knowing that I could end up losing my metadata in the event of a corrupt database or some other error with essentially nothing I can do to protect myself.

• rpavlik commented  ·  March 29, 2012 10:25 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Looks like XMP is the way to go. If a user doesn't choose "organize my files", then I'd say put it in an XMP sidecar file so you don't anger the user by modifying their file. If you have permission to modify stuff (here, by moving), though, I'd say embed the XMP right in the PDF.

• daniel commented  ·  February 15, 2012 12:50 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  @krzysztof pijarski ...yes, me too. And I have to format my hard disk...so i don't want to lose all the titles, authors, year of publication, etc...

• Rasmus K. Rendsvig commented  ·  February 10, 2012 2:56 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I threw 3 votes because I cannot think of anything more important to be implemented!
  I have just re-installed my OS, and I took for granted that Mendeley did this already. Alas, I have a lot of document merging to do.

• krzysztof pijarski commented  ·  February 8, 2012 3:57 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I added 3 vote for that option, as it seems mendeley's most important lack atm. in case of a database problem i will loose all the metadata in well over 1000 pdf's that took me weeks to sort out. please do implement this asap. thank you!

• EmpIzza commented  ·  February 7, 2012 5:39 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Sadly I'm out of votes, but this is useful.

• Julian commented  ·  February 3, 2012 2:55 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Wow.... I had no idea that the metadata was not being saved into the pdf file. This is a very important feature! I will try the ad-hoc method suggested below using JabRef, hoping that the Mendeley team will add this feature soon.

• Joshua Toney commented  ·  November 22, 2011 10:20 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Why has this not happened yet? Seems like an easy fix.

• mytK commented  ·  October 20, 2011 7:10 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  this is very important to me as i want to read the pdfs on my kindle. If the metadata would be saved in the pdf I could organize everything on the kindle much better.
  Right now i have to do it twice, once in mendeley and once again for the actual pdfs.

• Marxrx commented  ·  September 22, 2011 4:07 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  wee need this function!!